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She cared for him He saw it in her eyes, but this was all new to her, and she was enaave each other

“Don’t say you aren’t acting weird, because you have no clue what I just asked you,” she interrupted his thoughts

“You asked why I was acting weird,” he countered, feeling a little off kilter inside

“Yeah, three questions ago” She gave a little shake of her head “This is your falad you are here, ant to talk to you and spend time with you Smile”

“If you like them so much, you can have them”

“I wish” Realizing what she’d said, Sarah turned a bright shade of red “That could be taken in all kinds of wrong ways, so letfa I specifically wanted your family to be mine”

Well, as long as they were straight on that

“They’re not all they’re cracked up to be,” he assured her, taking a long drink frolass

“At least they’re family and they love you”

Not wanting to talk about his fa a hole he didn’t want to be in, Jude changed the direction of their conversation “Do you not have family, Sarah? Is that what this is about?”

Her face a little pale, she shrugged “My mother lives in Queens”

She’d mentioned her mother a few times, briefly, but no one else

“What about the rest of your family?”

“There is no rest of s he’d given her on the night he’d taken her to the Broadway show Why had he done that? He’d not bought jewelry for a woman ever

“My mother ran off with her boyfriend when she was sixteen and lost all contact with her parents If they are still alive, I’ve no clue Apparently, she contacted them a few times early on, but they’d written her off as dead and refused to let her back into their lives When she told the her she’d made her bed and to lie in it Over the years, she worked about every kind of job there is, usually waitressing Until she got involved with soain, that is, and then we’d end up in a homeless shelter or at one of her coworkers’ hoet us back off the streets again”